Secretary of State William Seward was attacked but ultimately survived. Image via Utah Digital Newspapers, the University of ...

“He was crucified for us!” an elderly African American from York, Pennsylvania, told a newspaper that Easter weekend.

But that recognition did not arrive immediately, or everywhere; it took weeks of national mourning ... suspicions that he had conspired in Lincoln’s assassination and threw him into prison ...

His hat bore a mourning band for his son Willie ... Cade Martin Lock of Lincoln’s Hair Within an hour after the assassination, Mary Lincoln summoned Mary Jane Welles to the Petersen House.

Images of Abraham Lincoln as he lay dying filled the popular press in the days following the assassination. The sudden and violent attack on the president came on Good Friday, the most somber day ...

will host a lecture and exhibit unveiling commemorating the 160th anniversary of the Lincoln assassination. Gates will be up for visitor parking at 5 p.m., and a reception and exhibit unveiling will ...

Did John Wilkes Booth, the infamous assassin of Abraham Lincoln, spend time in this house? And is this where the assassination was planned? The History Detectives are on the case.

STARKVILLE, Miss.—With the country on the cusp of healing after the Civil War, the sudden assassination of Abraham Lincoln in 1865 stands as one of the most significant and haunting events in American ...

The subject of countless books, movies and other projects, Lincoln’s legend remains ... and of course his assassination cemented his memory in their lives then forever,” said Kraus.

America’s greatest president had moral vision, strategic genius, and astounding eloquence.

_ This April 1865 photo provided by the Library of Congress shows President Abraham Lincoln’s box at Ford’s Theater, ...